I'm already 30! It doesn't really feel like a landmark. When I started out, my aim was to keep making records. Just because I've reached the 10th doesn't mean I'm going to rest on my laurels now!

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

Sometimes you definitely need to just let go. You need to sort of forget everything.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

Museums, I love museums.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.